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INF ALLIBILITY. The Manning-Cladstone Oon- troversy. ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY’S VIEWS. He Says Gladstone Has Taken to ‘Hig Cheshire Cheese.” Baising a Whirlwind That Will Blow Gladstone Out To Sea and Not Back to Power. Remarkable Letter from the Pri- mate of Maryland. Wasinaron, Nov. 19, 1874, ‘The enterprise of the HERALD in presenting the important points of the Manning-Glavstone con- troversy in its full cable telegrams has been fully @ppreciated in this city and Baltimore—tne me- tropolis of the oldest Catholic diocese in the United States, named fn honor of the founder of the Maryland colony, where liberty of conscience in eeligious belief was made the corner stone of her enduring fame. Aside irom the natural interest, therefore, which Catholics of this country feel in whe controveray, it comes home personally to hem, as Mr. Gladstone has said that “the Papal met sweeps @ multitude of facts, including whole systems of government in all parts of the world, including the United States, where the sever- ance of Church and State was supposed to be complete.” Any of the archbishops or bishops in the United States could autbori- tatively answer this assertion of Mr. Gladstone; but from none, probably, could 8 de nial come with more free and general acceptance than irom J. Roosevelt Bayley, the Archbishop of Baltimore, A prominent gentleman of this city, who 1a a Catholic and identified with public af fairs, wrote 1o Archbisnop Bayley a few days ago, enclosing copies of the HERALD containing the letter of Archbishop Manning and the points of Gladstone's attack. As 1% contains nothing of private character the Archbishop’s permission to publish itis presumed, and the letter was to-day handed your correspondent, that 1t may have its place in the columns of the HeraLp alongside Of that of the Archbishop's distinguished con+ temporary, ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY’S LETTER. AKCHBISHOP’s HOUSE, } BALTIMORE, Nov. 17, 1874 Mx Dear Sin—I have this moment received your letter of yesterday, asking me to tell you ‘what I think of the statement made by Mr. Glad stone in hia late pamphlet, that since the Vatican Council defined’ the dogma of the tnfallibility of the Pope “every Catholic is called upon to re- ‘ounce his mental and moral freedom and place fs civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another.” If honest, cant-hating old Dr. Jonnson were still | living, and you were to ask him the same ques- tion, he would probably explain the matter by Saying ‘the dog is a whig,”” and would come very near hitting the nail on the head. To tell you the truth, I have no leisure to enter “epon any formal discussion of the mutter, and, in fact, no disposition to do so, The accusation itself reminds one unpleasantiy of similar accusa- tions (humant generis inimict) brought against the primitive Christians, as we find them In the pages or Tacitus and other Pagan enemies of Christian- ‘ty, and when a@ person tells me tnat my religion fequires me to be disloyal to my country the old Adam comes up in me, and I fecl more disposed €o pull his nose than to answer him politely. ‘This accusation, it is true, isa very old one. It ‘was, as you will remember, urged against our Oivine Lord himseif that he was ‘‘no friend to Owsar,” and the same charge has Oiten been ree peated against nis followers. The only thing I have to say, at this time, against Mr. Gledstone’s declaration is, that it is talsc—a wbamefnl calumny—and I would appeal, with per- fect confidence as to the truth of my assertion, to the conacience of every Catholic over the face of the earth, It nas no foundation either in the ‘words of the decree nor in any possible logical de- @uction from those words. The thought even that 4 would have any such bearing I am certain never entered into the mind of any member of the Coun- ei. The Vatican canon aid not change in one iota the relations of Catholics to the civil power, any more than it changed those of Protestants. It left | that important matter, as connected with the order of civil society, where the New Testament Jeaves tt—where our blessea Lord left it, when he told us to “Render to Omsar the things that are Cwsar’s, ana to God the things that are God’s’—where the Aposties eft it, when they commanded us to be obedient to our civil rulers, “for conscience’ sake,”’ and the only limitation ever pat upon this obedience was pat upon it by the Apostles themselves, acting as ‘Mterpreters and teachers of God's holy law, when, having been ordered by the Jewish rulers “not to preach aby more in the name of Jesus,” they asked them whether “it was right to obey man rather than God,” and declared thay they could mot (non possumus) and consequently would not @top preaching tn His holy name. And this teach- ing of.our religion and this authoritative interpre- tation o! it is binding on all Christians, whether Catholics or Protestants; it is as binding on Mr. Gladstone as on the Archbishop of Westminster. It wonld not require the help of one of “the eleven wise men o! Greece” to find out the par- ticular form of monomania which Mr. Gladstone is laboring under, Ever since he committed a Politica) hari-kari on himself by dissolving Par- Wament be has been a soured ana disappointed man, biown up and very much damaged By his own petard; and there is no being on this earth more mischievous and dangerous than an Old poittician, as the common saying has i,**turned out Lo grass.” +1, who was once asgreat as Oxsar, amnow rednced to Nebuchadnezzer.” Everything he has done and said and written since shows that he 18 as anxious to get back into his cage as @ polar bear ts anxious to get out of hia. | And so he bas taken to what an old English divine used to call “his Cheshire cheese’—the “No Popery” cry, which “little Johnny” and many others have tried before him, and is endeavoring to raise the whirlwind tn the hope that it may Dlow him back on to the treasury benches. it wilt be more likely to biow tim out to sea, It is indeed saa to see & Aletinguished statesman NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. like Mr. Gladstone, who has always enjoyed the reputation of being a high-toned and honorable man, putting on “the cap and bells’ and attempt- ing to play the part of Lord George Gordon. By this publication he has paid but a poor com- Pltment to the good sense and intelligence of the English people, and I hsve my. doubts whether they. will dance to hia music, If he was situated like Bismarck, and could put @ soidier alongside of every honest citizen to make him dance, ‘will he, nili he,” then there would be some sense in the thing, When I can find time [ will write to you more at length, ana recommend to you certain works to read which wil) abow you more fully how little our theologians or political writers Mke De Maistre or De Bonaid or Bslmez have entertained *.ny of the nonsense which Mr. Gladstone !alsely attributes to | ws, I remain, ete,, J. ROOSEVELT BAYLEY, Archbishop of Baltimore. Mr. Gladstone and the Vatican Decrees— A Reply from Most Rev. Dr. Manning. 10 THE EDITOR OF THY LONDON DAILY TBLEGRAPH :— Sm—The gravity « ’ the subject on which I ad- dress you, affecting, ‘sit must, every Catholic in the British Empire, ~ ill, Lhope, obtain from your courtesy the publica on of this lester. This morning I re eived a copy of a pamphlet, entitied “The Vaticai Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance.” I find init a direct appeal to myself, both for the office I hold and lor the writ- ings I have published, I gladly acknowledge the duty that les upon me for both these reasons. I am bound by the office I bear not to suffer a day to pass without repelling trom the Oathoiics of this country the lightest imputation upon their loyalty; and, for my teac! I am ready to show that the principles 1 have ever taught are beyond impeachment upon that score, It is true, indeed, that in page 51 of the pamphlet Mr. Gladstone expresses hi eltef ‘that meny of nis Roman Catholic friends and fellow-country- men" are, ‘to say the least of it, as good citizens as himself.” But, a8 the whole Pamphlet ig an elaborate argument to prove that the teaching of the Vatican Council rende's 18 impossible for them to be 80, I cannot accept this graceful acknow!l- edgment, which implies that they are good citi- zens because they are at Variance With the Cath- olic Church, I should be wanting in duty to the Catholics of this country and to mysell if I did not give a prompt contradiction to this statement, and if I did not with equal promptness affirm that the loyalty of our civil allegianée is no* inspite of the teaching of the Catholic Church, but because of it, The sum of the argument in the pamphiet just published to the world ts this:—That a the Vati- can decrees such a change has been made in the relations of Catholics to the civil power of States that itis no longer possible for them to render the same undivided civil allegiance as it was pos- sible for Catholics to render before the promulga- tion of those decrees. In answer to this it Isfor the present suMcient to affirm :— 1. That the Vatican decrees have in no jot or title changed either the obligations or the condi- tions of civil allegiance. 2 That the civil allegiance of Catholics ts as un- divided as that of all Christians, and of all men who recognize a divine or natural moral law. 8. That the civil allegiance of no man is un- limited, and, therefore, the ctvtl allegiance of all Men who believe tu God or are governed by con- | science 18 in that sense divided. In this sense, and in no other, can it be said with trath. that the civil allegiance of Catholics 1s divided, The civil allegiance of every Christian man in Engiand 1s limited by conscience and the law of God; and the civil allegiance of Oatholics is limited neither less nor more. The public peace of the British Empire hag been consolidated in the last half century by the elimi- nation of religious conflicts and tequalities from our laws. The Empire of Germany might have been equally peaceful and stabie if its statesmen had not been tempted, in an evil hour, to rake up the old fires of reiigious disunton. ‘the hand of one man, more than any other, threw this torch of aiscord into the German Empire. The history of Germany will record the name of Dr. Ignatius von Ddllinger as the author of this national evil. J lament not only to read the name, D6Itnger in the pamphlet before me. May God preserve these kingdoms from the public and pri- vate calamities which are visibly impending over Germany! The author of the pamphiet, in his first line, assures us that bis “purpose is not po- lemical, but pacific.” lam sorry that 80 good an mtention should nave so widely erred in the se- lection of the means, 4 But my purpose is neither to criticise nor to con- trovert. \y desire and my: duty as an Enghsh- man, a8 a Catholic, and as a pastor, is to claim jor my flock and for myself, a civil aliegiance as pure, as true and as loyal as is rendered by the distin- guished author of the pampniet, or by any subject of the British Empire. I remain, sir, your faithful servant, +HENRY E! NOVEMBER 7, 1874, ARD, Archbishop of Westminster, Religion Not a Mere Sentiment—What Reservations Mean and What They Are Not. To THE Epiror of THE HERALD:— Whatever regrets may be expressed at the rise and progress of the present controversy I, for one, shall feel none if the open discussion of the principles at issue but ends in establishing the tact that Catholics are, by doctrine, conviction and practice, as faithful and devoted citizens as the best of you. Forgive me if I must at the outset emphatically deny one other affirmation of yours, that religion, namely, is but “a sentiment.” No, sir, my creed 18 Dot a sentiment, a mere subjective feeling, af fecting the mind, the imagination ur the sensibili- | ties of the individual believer, but resting on nothing positive, tangible or indestructible be- yond that, My religion is based on hard set, clearly cut, doctrinal facts—called dogmas, The dogmatic structure of that great Cathollo creed ts as firmly based, as sharply defined and as visible to the mind’s eye in the intellectual world as the pyramid of Cheops has been to the traveller tm Egypt for the last 1,800 years. And It is precisely because the doctrine of alle- giance to the civil magistrate has ever been clearly defined and declared age after age, without am- biguity or “reservation,” that | approach this dis- cussion with unhesitating confidence. Lafmirm it, and fearlessly challenge contradiction Of the fact, there is neither in Catholic doctrine on the relations of Church and State nor in the authoritative declaration of councils or Popes any one thing which warrants your assertion that “the whole Catholic system is based upon a ‘reserva- tion’ precisely like the ‘higher law’ of the anti- slavery men.” After the most carefal and conscientious study of the tenets of other religious denominations, I can find no “reservation” in this matter of obedi- ence to law which ts not made by the members of every Church in the Union—nay, which is not made by every citizen in the community when he casts his vote for President or Governor, Congressman or Assemblyman, Judge, Attorney General or Al- derman. The question at issue is too serious, as I at least conceive It, that we should engage in a war of words, What, then, is the State to whose ordi- nances, if 1 understand you aright, your principles would demand the acqulescence of my judgment and the submission of my will without “reserva- tion” or condition? Let us look into the matter a ; little more closely. ‘The State is not a mere abstraction, an tdeal be- | ing standing between earth and heaven, superior to the entire body of citizens, invested with mys- | terious powers derived one knows not whence, in. capable of doing wrong, inaccessible to a sense either of mercy or of justice, and irresponsible to any one for its acts. Iv is, in our time-honored Anglo-Saxon theory of government (derived in its every essential jeature from old Catholic generations), a thing of flesh and blood, made up of the chosen men of the com- munity, intrusted for the time being with the duties oi making laws tor the common good and of exccuting them, and of devising all necessary means for securing the peace, prosperity and hap- piness of the entire body of citizens, These men in authority—executive, legislative | and judictary—are not irresponsible, superior to law, incapable of enacting wrong and executing it. at the ballot box, knew perfectly well that as legislators they would be fallible, and as judges or inverpreters of the jaw they would be liable to err, and, even as the supreme executive, that these men were not made by our yotes inaccessi- bie to human frailty. Let that ideal and worshipfal personage we call “the State” be controlled by General Grantor Poss Tweed or Johu Kelly or John Morrissey. you, Mr, but to trace the argaments of Dr, von | You and J, when we created them by our vote | May issue must have the anconditiona] and unre- served acqutescence of your judgment and your | will, But if the august notion of “the State” shock your reverential or religious sense when embodied in such men as 1 have named, then jet us look across the seas and consider the model govern- ments of Bngiand and Germany. We shall set aside both Queen Victoria and the Emperor Wil- helm as being mere figure-heads, and consider | England as governed constitutionally by Disraeh, and Germany as it is roled most arbitrarily by Vop Bismarck. Each in hisown measure these men represent the State in Great Britain and Germany respect- ively. I make a0 enormous difference between them. Ben Disraeli, now that he ia in power, will { not carry out against Catholics the measures which some prophetic minds beheld foreshadowed in “Lothair.” Poor Ben! he has enough to do at the helm to steer the dear and brave old vessel of State clear of the rocks, and we shall not say one word to him while his eye and car and hand are strained to the utmost pitch of tension in order to avoid the inevitable crash. But if Gladstone, to-morrow or next day, should again be the State of Great Britain, see you not the measures hg would introduce against the Catholic Church? Do not be misled by the dis- tinction whicu be makes between “Catholics” and “Ultramontanes.” Since the deflnition of July, 1870, there is no such distinction, Gallicanism or Ultramontanism bas disappeared or verrornte apostacy of that motley crew of J© © 4.98 and | suspended priests who try to hide their shame under the title of ‘Old Catholics.” It is manifest that Gladstone means or threatens to repeal wholly or in part the act of Emancipation. Would that repeal be a righteous one ? Has it been mer- ited by the conduct of Catholics since 1828 on any field where England’s honor or greatness has been imperiled ? Who will dare say yes ? And Germany ? Why, my God, we are all blinded by the glare of Sadowa and Sedan to the propor- tions of that colossal figure of despotism and Jawless force which tramplea down all righteous opposition in the German Empire, That imperson- ation of ruthless ambition and conscienceless rule is Blamarck, who moves onward like @ loco- Motive on a stormy night, crushing beneath his tron wheels every claim of reason, justice, truth and mercy. Who will dare maintain that the laws enacted by a servile legislature at the b ding of such a Man, sanctioned by his superaanuated master, praised by his “reptile press,” and executed by the pliant tools created in such abundance in | Prussia since Frederick the Great, are binding on she judgment or the conscience of Christian, or Teasonable, or ree men? Farthermore, you believe as I do—that were we | both living to-morrow beneath the re-established | Sovereignty of Pius IX., neither hts right as prince nor his quality of Pontitf could bind us a | priort to acknowledge every law emanating from his government as absolutely just, or every ad- mintatrative act as unerringly wise and equitable, There ts not, there never has been, and there never will be, one singio human government, no matter what ity name or form, whose acts are not or may not be liable to this inevitabie ‘‘reserva- tion” implied in the tmperfections, fratlues and passions of those from whom they proceed. Grant and Tweed governed you and me yester | day—Grant and Tweed's men are to govern us to- | morrow. Les them govern justly and according to the constitution, and We shall obey them. But in our very obedtence there is a fear and a reserva | tion concerning thenr possible prevarication. There is, however, a distinction which you and I make, that is 1p what regards our allegiance to the people of the United States. Let tneir na- tional life, their inaependence, their honor be threatened by any foe foreign or domestic, and then we shall think nolonger of this man or that who has misgoverned or disgraced us, but of the | nation in whose cause we are vound belore God unquestioningly and unbesitatingly to peril life itself, Here, in the matter of allegiance and the duties it involves, there Is and can be no ‘‘reservation.”? 1 do acknowledge a “reservation,” then, in my acceptance of unrighteous and oppressive laws. Srall I tell you now from whom that “reserva.ion” is most dangerous? It is from those who can, in their doubts, invoke vate judgment. We know what that leads to when party passions are ripe, and local interests and prejudices are enlisted for party purposes, No “infanibility” ever dreamed of by ignorance or bigotry could be more tyrannical than the des- potism of @ mov, whose motives, in the hour of political commotion, are thought to be sanctioned by religion, It is not yet a full century since Lord George Gordon was master of London. But since that black date the English people have aamired on more than ouve occasion the forbearance of their Catholic fellow citizens under intolerable wrong, because the voice of the Common Father exhorted them to wait patiently tor the dawn of reason and justice. During the anti- slavery agitation we, too, abstained. The Holy Father prayed that peace might soon come to the Union and exhorted his ciildren here to pray. When the struggie for the national life came we here in the North were not the last to go forth and repel the enemy from the seat of the national authority, It 18 not true that the Holy Father sympathized | with the rebellion. Because he ts the father of Christendom his sympathies are evermore for | peace and the solid welfare of each country. No one deplored more bitterly than he the origin of our civil war and its probable consequences, Ifon one occasion bis excessive anxiety to see peace restored, and with peace the Union, led him, under partisan counsels, to lend his name to an effort at conciliation, let us not forget that those who persuaded Dim were Americans pleading for America, Nor Mr, Lincoln nor Secretary Sewagd ever cast blame on Plo Nono’s heart or motives for this one act of very justifiable humanity. The game may be sald of his condact toward México. He, like many others nearer home, was made to believe thas Maximilian was called to that coun- try by the united voice of the long-suffering popu- lation, The biessing he bestowed on the til-fated Prince was soon recalled when he learned on whet principles Napoleon III. intended to estabd- lish the Mexican Empire, and how little the arch- traitor Bazaine could be trusted to carry out any civilizing mission. After all, Pio Nono only performed toward a Catholic prince, starting on & dangerous and seemingly chivalrous mission, an act of courtesy like those performed datiy toward American citizens visiting Rome, be they Protestant or Catholic. In all these instances there 18 nothing amounting to a positive accusa- mon Father. But can we American republicans afford to throw stones at the Roman Pontisr, while on the one hand we suffer the Republic of Cuba to be extinguished by slow torture for years and years at our own door, and on ve other are for- ever patting the tyrant Bismarck on the back and abetting him in a course of oppression and perse- nineteenth century? PRUDENTIUS, The first fall exhibition given by tne members and professors of Wood’s Gymnasium took place last evening at No, 6 Kast Twenty-eighth street. There were about 460 gentlemen present, who > Bw! ep a @Q > a o bal Rb Zz a gS a es vitt, aged fourteen, and Professor O'Neill. The lad demonstrated that his education in the science of sparring bad been well attended to, Then Dr, Meigs and Professor Wood gave a Itke exhibition, which was iollowed by Mr. Fred J, Engelhardt and Proiessor Delwick in the art of fencing, Then \ came Mr. M. E, Burton, using the Indian clabs, and the applause which greeted his (fort was very gratifying, Other sparring foliowed, and Mr. C. D. Newton performed upon the trapeze. Engelhardt and O'Neill also set-to witn the gloves, Delwick and Sennac with the singlestick, when Mr. R. A. Pennell displayed his great strength In putting up the dum bells, capping the climax by raising the two nundred pounder. This gentienmian was then presented with an elegant guard chain by the members of the gymnasium. The wind-up was between Messrs. Buermeyer and Dwyer, whose Ability With tue ioves received great applause, p. Editor, are not prepared to say that the laws it | the aid of no authority superior to their own pni- | tion against the judgment or the heart of the Com- | cution whicn puts to shame the civilization of the | evinced the liveliest interest in the entertainment. | First on the list was a set-to between Master Lea- | THE ‘LONGSHOREMEN. soveesvcmaielaaiganiatine No Adjustment of the Dispute—The Non- Society fen Gaining Experience—The Regula Stenmers Sailing on Time. Whatever May have been the cause the appear- | ance of West street yesterday presented nothing unusual, and one not familiar with the fact that several thousand ‘longshoremen were on a strike could hardly have guessed such a state of affatra, The sidewalks and old rendezvouses of the strikers were deserted, aud at the docks where the steamships advertised to sail were lying everything was going on satisfactorily and pleas- antly, Many of these vessels were full of paascn- gers, the number in the stcerage being quite large, and in the majority of cases all the cargo engaged had been pnt in the ships. It was not possibie to personally watch the several departures, but in- quiry established that but (ew, 1f any, of tne ves- sels would be detained. It was also observed that the quietude of the men was 80 marked and en- couraging that the police had been withdrawn from the several docks, save in two instances, these exceptions being that of the Pacific Matland Inman piers, where there were half a dozen or 80 on each, ready lor anything that turned up in their line of duty, though it proved they were not re- quired to exercise their authority. THE RAST RIVER PRONT. So far as the few steamship lines along the East | River, who have been compelled to employ non- | my men doring the past week, are concerned the strike of the ‘longshoremen has proved a fizzle. Enough and in some instances more laborers than were required were provided at alew hours’ notice, ail of whom, after a little practice, worked efficiently, yet, perhaps, lacking that rapie'ty which characterized the work of the old hands. The owners and stevedores express great Satisiaction at the result, and deem the worst of the fight with them as over, and in one or two cases they are seriously agi- tating the question of never again employing union men. ‘These facia do not appear to discon- cert the locked-out workmen, however, for yester- | day, a8 on the pistons days, they were frm in the stand which had been taken by the 0} tion, and will “fight 1 out on this line.” There could be but little gleaped trom convérsations with the strikers lounging around South street as to the future action of their leaders, yet they seem Well assured that the oilicers of the union for the interests of the entire boay time will make the way clear to their employment at the old wages, It does not enter invo thetr calculations that tt has been bad policy to create such a rupture at thts season of the year, secmin thas their cause is good and must in the end succeed. Although the Italians were Romig satisfac. torily on pier No. 18, the large body of old hands along the sidewalk opposite was sufficient to render the presence of policemen necessary, What might rave taken place had not the officers been on hand no one can guess, yet the strikers seemed very quiet and to mun sober, The |\steamer Arfagon, the only vessel at thts dock, was receiving tne last of her age and though it was the opinion of uet officers that she would be delayed in sailing until this morping, they teel well satisfied with everything and emphatically dectare that her cargo is as well, if not better, eee than has been the case lor many voyages ack, Quietude also marked the state of affairs on pier No. 16, that of the Savannah line, and it was stated the steamer would be ready to sail at the usual hour. On the corner of Wall and South stree: opposite the pler, there was a body of the ol } men narrowly watching the non-goctety labore: and occasionally laughing loudly at some awk war movement which thelr quick eyes detected in handling bales o! cotton. The owners of this line are resolved to hold to their determination not to pay other than the reduced rates, and, as in the cage above cited, are inclined to be aggressive and not again employ society men. IN BROOKLYN, At Harbeck Stores the unloading of the Rotter- dam steamer Maas progressed very satisfactortly, the newly employed rmans working will and so carefully that an officer of the dock felt it “There has been less breakage in discharging the cargo of this steamer shan auy other that has been at this pier for six months.” Mr. Howard, the “poss”? stevedore, personally supermtended the work, and to an outsider it ydid not appear to be the least trouble for him to make the new men understand his wishes. All the cargo, it was thought, would be on the dock by late jagt night, and on Monday work will begin in loading tor the next trip, there being great conflaence expressed that the ship would be ready to leave on the advertised aate, 26th inst. To-morrow morning the South American steamer Ontario, which arrived at Martin’s stores on Friday, Will commence to discharge her cargo, and some trouble iway be roned by the intro- duction of sufficient numbers of Italians to do the work, as there 18 20 doubt men of this nationality will be employed by the stevedores, Walsh Brothers, who have charge of the job. ' Should | there be the least aemonstration by the locked- } Out laborers there wiil be a suicient police force | present to quell it instanter. *Longshoremen vs. Italian. Paoli Natiero is an Italian who lives in Thompson | street, near Grand, and is @ part of that super- | abundant human material that weighs down the | price of labor along the shores of the city. He is, | perhaps, useful to himself, certainly a venefit to and decidedly an object tor the hatred of the “striking” ‘iongshoremen. Yesterday afternoon an unknown man hit bim on the nead with a stone while at the corner of King and Varick streets, | Paoli, was attended by a surgeon at the Twenty- eigith precinct station house, and thence was | sent nome. Meeting of ’Longshoremen. At eight o’clock last evening the delegates and York, Brooklyn and Jersey City crowded Sst | James’ Hall, on the corner of New Bowery and James street. At least 1,500 members were pres. ent, all "longshoremen. The Chair called the meeting to order, impress- serving strict order throughout, that the object of their meeting might be accom- plished. He then stated in brief what that object waa. It was totake measures and pass resolutions jn reference to the treatment the | organization had received at the hands of certain tyrannical merchants and stevedores, and more particularly in relation to the recent opposition maintained against them by she Walsh Brothers &@ motion was made and carried unanimously to the offect— “That no member of any of our organizations ahali work for apy merchant, stevedore or others who employ outsiders at the reduced rates. “That under no circumstances shall we work for the Walsh Brothers and Henderson Brothers.”” ‘This was "unamimonsly responded to by a loud, hoarse, emphatic “No”? A third motion was here put before the meeting, namely:—“Resolved, That no man of our organ- | {gation shall work either in steamer or sailing snip unless he be paid the regular rate of wages.!? Carriea unanimously. Areport Was next handed tn by a committee stating that men worked on twenty docks as stevedores, ‘longshoremen and ships’ | than the regular rate of wages, but the ships Asia, | Enoch Trainor, Clonronail, Gleofiniey and Canada gave {uli compensation. As a consequence of this information @ motion was made and carried that no man of the Union should work on any steamship or sailing vessel for less than forty cents an hour per day and eighty cents per night. Mr. O'Gorman, the representative of the New Jersey delegates, objected moderately and asked an amendment, bat his request was to no purpose. “No compro- mise” were the deafening words, and the deie- | gate submitted with very good grace. | “A vote of thanks was then tendered tu Mr. | Gallagher, eee No. 2 Workingmen’s Union of | New York, and to ali connected with the same, | for sending to the "longshoremen his hearty sup- | port and the support of all the men over witom he was President. A delegate from Brooklyn next made an effort | to have @ motion adopted relative to the appoint. ing of @ committee of one meinber from each | union, with three additional members, to wait | jon and confer with the merehants of the city. | ju | the motion Was considered ang seconded, but af- terward discussed at considerable length, and finally laid over until the next meeting, the ory at the same time being, “No, let the merchants wait upon us.” The meeting was then brought toa close by a hearing from the committee, Who were appointed to procure the release of all_ Members conilned in the Tombs | and Jefferson Market. The following were reported as released, V1Z:—John sullivan, Kdward Farrell, Patrick Moran, James Morrissy and John Mariow, only one stili remaining in prison. ‘The at- most good feeling and order prevailed throughout. | A resolution Was passed to hold the next meeting | on ae November 24, at Nos, 76 and 78 Varick | street. The Strike in Jersey City. The gang Of Italian laborers employed at the | Cunard dock, in Jersey vity, to take the places of | the ‘longshoremen on strike, concluded their task | of loading tbe Java yesterday, and the superin- | tendent (Mr. Walsh) speaks of them in the highest terms, He says that a great saving to the com- | pany has been offectsd, The new men have | worked 80 satisfactorily that their services have ; been retained permanently, This ends the strike as far the company are con- | cerned. The men who are out on strike j will not be engaged again, even if | they ould presen} themgeives in compliance due to them to make this acknowledgment:— | stevedores and steamship companies at present, | Nauiero, the namesake of the Corsican patriot | members of the Workingmen's Unions of New | ing upon the members the necessity of ob- | and Henderson Brothers, After some discussion | crews less | withthe new regulations. The Cunard agests have determined to guard against future trouvie by strikes, by keeping out of their employ- ment all nen who attempt to embarrass the busi- | Bess of the line whenever it suity their purposes. The number of men thrown out of employment by the strike 1# about 100, and as there is very little employment on now for the laboring class tn Jeraey City, much distress among the families of the strikers will be the consequence. was DO disturbance at the docks yesterday. A VICTIM TO GRIEF. ‘There Yesterday afternoon a well dressed man, ot re- spectable appearance, entered No, 41 Broad street iu an apparently fainting condition. OfMcer Hays | took him to the New street station house. Within five minutes after his arrival there he died. It was then learned that his name was Peter J, Bel- lew, and that he haa resided at the Park Hotel, in Nassau street, Suortly after the occurrence a HekaLp reporter called upon Mr. George A, | Croiutt, the proprietor of the above mentioned hotel, who made the following statemen “Mr. Bellew was @ traveller for the liquor house of Messra, Frank Boetn & Co., of No. 43 Broad street, for several years past. He came here about ten days ago, returning from a South- ern tour, and one day ne received o telegram cone tnat his wife bad died gadden! at uffalo, of heart disease. Re buried her at New Haven, where the tamily lived, Itaffected him terribly, and at the grave -he remarked he would soon follow her, and tem- porarily prevented, I am toid, the filling up of the grave. Upon lis return here be became unmanned with grief, and would sit with his head :p his hands all day, weeping {or bis dead wile, The day and night clerks wens up stairs to try and cheer him, but in vain. He reiused food, and nearly starved Nimself to death. He looked asi! inw dream, On Friday his boy came here trom New Haven, and it was agreed that they should go back tue same evening. ‘This morning ne went to nis employers to get some money that they owed him, and left the boy in my charge, ‘The boy sub- sequently saw his father, when dead, ana also called upon Messrs. Bochn & Co. to ask for some money to get back to New Haven; but the boy tells me that they told bim that neither ms father nor he had any claims upon them. ‘The ooy came back to me With tears in bis eyes, not knowing what to do. So, alter giving him bis supper, I put bim in the train bouna for New Haven, where he now Sndoubseaiy 18. I believe | bis grandiather bas money and will see that bis lather is puried properly. While the police officer was tuking him to the stauon house be railed once and then became unconscious. Captain Cherry placed him on & chair, put he died within a jew moments. He drank no intoxicating hgnors while bere to my knowledge, save on oue occasion when some whiskey was gent to his room, aa he felt very weak. I think grief killed him. He has stopped at this note) for many years. THE SUPPOSED ACTON HOMIOIDB Investigation Before Coroner Woltman— Discharge of the Prisoner. Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inquest in the case of Jane Acton, a single woman of intem- perate nabits, ate of No, 48 Chariton street, whose death, it was alleged, had been caused on the 25th ult, by violence received at the nauds | of her brother, John Acton, as reported in the HERALD at the tine of the occurrence. John Kane deposed that he was called in to see deceased after nergdeath, and, finding she had ) | swo biack eyes, asked the prisoner and bis mother how she had received them; in reply he was told she had fallen down stairs; deceased and bay | brother were in the habit of drinking to exccss | and quarreiling when iv that condition. Dr, Chaasey deposed that he examined the body of deceased and was of the opinion that the Dlack eyes she had could not have been produced by a fall, and that they were caused by a blow froma man’s fist; and believes that they could not well have been produced any other way, Panny Acton, a poor, decrepit old woman, mother of deceased, deposed thut her daughter told her she had fallen down stairs, and must received one black eye by the iall; don't know how the other eye was injured; deceased and | prisoner never had auy bad quarrels. Depaty Coroner Marsh, who made a post-mortem examination on the body, found that deatn } resulted trom compression of the brain, caused by violence of some kind. | The jury, in their verdict, said that frem the tes- | { timony they were unable to say in what manner , | the injuries causing death were received. Coroner Woltmaa (ped re discharged Acton from cus- tody. Mr. Leo Schwab appeared on behall of the prisoner. THE EXPLOSION AT HELL GATE, Testimony Before the Inspectors of | Steamships. Yesterday afternoon the investigation of the explosion of the tagboat Lily, which was blown up on Tuesday last, the 17th inst., in the Bast River, at Hell Gate, was continued before the United | States Local Inspectors of Steamsiips. On Thure- ; day last the inspectors took the deposition of Jonn Hogan, the freman of the Lily, who ts now received in the explosion, He testified that the boller bad been worked up to 4 pressure of eighty | ship Inspectors allowed only a pressure of seventy- five pounds, The first witness examined yesterday was Charlies Warren, the engineer, who resided at No. | 202 Catharine street, whose face was burned and | whose body was badly bruwed by the expiosion. LOUISIANA. lying in Bellevue Hospital suferiog from injuries | pounds, although the permit issued by the Steam- | 5 The President on Louisiana Affairs in the Fortheoming Message. Radical Explanations for His Guidance. WHITE LEAGUE CONSPIRACIES, Conservative Programme for Kellogg's Impeachment. WASHINGTON, Noy, 21, 1874, It is understood that the President in his mes- Sage Will call the attention of Congress to the ab- normal condition of afairs in Louisiana by refer- ence to the rot ef September 14 last, and the consequent action of the administration in order- ing troops and naval vessels to New Orleans. . ace companying the message Will be copies of all the orders issued and tie correspondence waich ofMciaUy passed in what was then and subsequently done, More serious trouble is anticipated next January than any which has yet occurred to mar the peace of the State. Of this the President has peen fully advised, and the sorry condition of affairs in Louisiana as well as Arkansas exciies serious attention on bis part, This week's HeRaLp's despatches from New Or- leans, already published, narrate that the White League of tha@t city threatens to lynch the mem- bers of the Returning Board, and that the White League of Sureveport volunteers to march down and assist in the fell work, A few days ago the Shreveport Times, which 18 conceded by the re- publicans to be the ablest democratic organ tn the State of Louisiana, demanded that every man, trom Congressman to coustable, whom the Board should return as elected, should be kiliva, All these facts are in the President’s possession, aud, while he is most heartily disgusted with the un- settled condition of uMairs, in which he has the sympathy of the Attorney General, ve recoguzes the obligation to prevent anarchy and stay riot, Tue deflant attitade ef the people of Louisiana is thought to portend mischief, and it is generally apprehended in administration circies that In January, when the Legistature shall assemble, . White League rifes will gainsay the titie of many of those returned by tie Board. Itis said that the Jear of federal interference will not deter the League from making its eflort any more than did the two years’ Executive recognition of the de facto goverhment dissuade that League from its bold experiment of September last. And yet the President bas been assured toata large element of the Louisiana democracy discountenance the League. The taxpayers are beginning to wince under the frequent paroxysms that depreciate property, dishearten enterprise aud repel immi- gration, The better of republicans Irankly admit that some of the local officials are not exemplary, but insist that, were mainly appointed before took the executive chair, heis not cuipable. firmed by the State Sepate, they cannot ve re- moved by him, and he has thas had to endure the odium of suborainates he never selected. They are, to a large extent, wen formerly identified with Warmoth, &nd conclude their official terms in January next. Governor Kellogg has assured the President that in Janaary next he will nave such @ new and critical corps Of servants through the State agit vever saw before. But information re- ceived bere is to the effect that Kellogg will not ‘nen be Governor, the choice being between McEnery, Penn, Caze and Wiltz, the latter the re- cent Mayor of New Orleuns, THE PROG! as develo, RAMME ped co far 18 to seat first the eleven Mc&nery Senators who hold over from 1872, and then the eight just elected, and, with this have @ Senate to try Kellogg Antome, the Lieusenant Governor, on articles of impeachment. ‘ro constitute a House to prefer articies, the League prociaims its resolve to seat as many us may be necessary of its partisans, whatever the finding of the Returning Board. Re- Publicans and democrats admit in common that their figures are close as to this body. McEnery, | it l# said, 18 anxious to have the two houses, coms posed as indicated, mect in joint sessiou, canvass | the old Warmoth returns of 1872, now supposed to ‘be tn covertin a Baluumore bauk vauit, and de- | oltre hime Governor, But McEnery is musty as & favorite. Penn, his Lieutenant Governor, was the White League hero of September, and it McEnery would die of abdicate a more vebe:ment and con- certed effort, it 16 claimed, would at once eugage the League. As it is, Penn finds McEnery a | stambling block, and the League, that will not | forgive the latter for opposing their September | row, a8 be had promised the President not | todo ur countenance any act of violence, are dividing tuto Cage aud Wiltz Clans—the latter by far the larger, Cage is one of the oid fusion Sen- ators, and relies on the League bayonet to get a | seat. Wiltz has just been indisputably elected to the lower House, 1s the retiring Mayor of New | Orleans and a young and very popular gentieman. Cage hopes by the impeachment o/ de facto Lioutenant Governor Antoine to pe elected by the | He stated that ne commenced to act | as engineer of the Lily about @ montn ; ago; on Saturday, the iéth inst., a | leak in the bouer was repaired by Mr. Bayley, of South street, ne had noticed @ leuk about three weeks ago; ithad been repaired by a 80% patcn, he believed that the steam gauge was correct; the the explosion, had told him that he might carry a | pressure of eighty pounds to the square incn; | water Was taken at Ninezy-second street, and we then went to Riker's Island atter the vessel laden with lumber, which they had to tow to New York; shortly betore the explosion he learned from the | fireman that the water was being used as iast as It came in, and he told him to leave both feed pipes open; the boiler, tn his optnton, had broken at the identical spot where tt bad been repairea. E. L. Bayley, the boiler maker, who repaired the boiler, testified that be had put a patch over two little checks 1n the new tron of the botler; pat | it on about six Months ago; the patch was secured | by seven bolts; he thought that the gauge wus defective. Mr. Lanigan, foreman for Mr. Bayley, thought | | tuat the repair of the boiler was well and thor- onghiy done; it was commenced on a Saturday. } The evidence of the foregoing witnesses was con- firmed by one of Mr. Bayiey’s botlermakers. The Lily, Which was of tweaty-ilve tons burden. was sold by Mr. George S. ‘townsend to Capain | Havens, who lost his life by the explosion. The In- | spector's record showg that the boiler was in- {| vestigated last on the 8th of July, 1874, MURDER IN BROOKLYN, A Colored Woman Killed by Two Ruf flan On the night of the 10th inst. Bhza Jackson, a | | colored woman, Was assaulted in a vacant lot at | | McDougall street and Ralph avenue, Brooklyn, ana since thas time she has been lying in a dan- | gerous condition at her bome, which isin a little | snanty at the corner of Monroe street and Ralph | avenue. She died last evening from the effects of | her wounds, and Ceroner Jones was notified to | hotd an inquest, | ‘The assault, which ts alleged to have been com- | mitted by two young rowdles, was of the most | atrocious caaracter, the poor woman’s clothing | beimg torn from her body, and her face and head | verribly bruised. Her assailants left her for dead, | and the next morning she was found by the police | | and taken home. Previous to her decease she made a statement implicating two young men, who are now In custody. 81, AGNES' CHURCH. ' Two years ago the Most Rev. Archbishop | | McClosky determined on forming a new parish at East Forty-third street. The misston to carry out | his wishes was intrusted to the Rey. Father Mac- Dowall, The immense crowds that thronged ! to Croton Hall, where divine service was | temporarily held, proved the great necessity | that existed tor a Catholic church in that , populous district. I'he young and popular pastor | Father MacDowall immediately purchased the site | jor achurch in Bast Forty-third street, and, not- withstanding the embarrassment and dimecuity | | created by the iate panic, succeeded tn building and roofing in the basement, where divine service has been held for some months past, ‘The tair to be opened next Monday is gotten up to collect 1unds for the completion of the churen, | and irom tne preparations made by the ladtes tn charge of the different tables the fair will prove | most attractive and we trust successful. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following record wili show the changes in the temperature during the last twenty-four hours, | in comparison with the corresponding date tast | year, a8 recorded at Hudnut’s drug store, 218 Browdway :— 1878, 1874, + 386 BBY 34 | pyy . M. 32 | 12 M.. 133) 88 12 P.M. 32 | | Average temperature yesterday. + 8636 | Average temperatare for corresponding date | | 1ABt YOAT. 0. cesses ceee ee + 29% | Average temperature last week.... oe 4117 Average temperature for corresponding week last year apeppmathd aia which Means a patch by boits being put over it; | late Captain Havens, woo had met his death by | | which, | would not order a new election. | State Senate as its President, and upon tue ensa- ing impeachment of Kellogg to become acting | Governor. Wiitz ts conspiring, it 1s said, to be | elected Speaker of the Hause, and thereupon to have the House impeach Kellogg stmultaneously with Antoine, whereby he may constitutionally | seat himse!i in the Executive chair. Neither com- petitor cares 6o much to bave impeachment car- ried to ayinaie, since the mere preferring of ar- ucles, under the Louisiana constitution, operates ag @ suspension of official functions, Wiltz canceives, it 18 said, that tbe venture should not be made until about the close of the session, im March, which would be too late for the present Congress to interfere, and he would then act as Governor tll the next Congress should assembie, being democratic in the lower House, The primary ef- fort will be to fix the personal composition of the Legislature, but a8 Wiltz starts in the race from the branch that determines whom to impeach first the cbances are largely in his {avor rather than Cage, of the White League, rather than the Ke- turning Board shall proclaim wno are the legis- ators. All this has been laid before the President to guide him iM his remarks on the Louisiana ques- tion. Kellogg has declared there 1s no need of his pr eee for troops when the League by such daily bulletins as have been recently pub- lished betrays the exigency for him. ne oe to the retirement of Longstreet from the turning Board to the end of making a» vacancy for a democrat, as 4 token of republican desire tor harmony, and to the refusal of both Landige and Avayo, old democrats, refusing to act alter having been elected by the Board as mem- berg, as denoting that the opposition will not be satisied with aught but @ wholesale return of anti-republicans to the Legislature, by whom a revolution, More legal in form than was that of last September, but for the same end, may be precipitated. Dilatory Action of the Returning Board—Another Mass Meeting at the Clay Statue Called to Accelerate Mate ters—The Army to Remain in New Orleans. NEw ORLBANS, Noy, 21, 1874, It 1s expected that the democratic city officers wilt be instalied on Monday on the Returaing Board's certificates. They have been eleven days can- vaasing the votes of this parish. There are still | filty-six parishes io be canvassed, which, at this rate, will require 613 days to declare the result in the State. Iam assured by bigh authority that the wmtes have ordered all organizations to be prepared for 4 MOVEMENT ON THE RETURNING BOARD Immediately afver the installation of the city officers, by @ mass meeting at the Clay statue, | a8 On the sth of Sepvember, and the sending of a commission to the Board giving them forty-eight hours to finish, and threatening to do certain things In the event of their failure. ‘The Sergeant-at-Arms ts here with summonses for McKuery and others 1o appear as witnesses before the Committee of Elections of Congress tor the second week in December, it ts positively Known that the army will remain here, as a large hotel has been rented by the government as quarters for the Thirteenth in- jantry ior aX months, Officers assert that here- alter the army 1s only to be used for the protection of United States property. All the White League organizations met last night for drill, Indictment of Ex-State Officials for Varioas Offences—Composition of the Jury. Niw ORLEANS, Nov, 21, 1874. The Grand Jury of Plaquemine parish have in- dicted the Jollowing persons:—Harry Mahony (colored), aM ex-member of the House of Repre- sentatives, for embezzling $3,300, as ‘Treasurer of the Board of Education; Edward Butler (colored), ex-State Seuator for receiving a bribe of $1,600; Willlam M. Prescott, Parish Judge, since 1868, \or bribery and corruptign in office and subornation of perjury; Nicholas Rivan (colored) for snooting with Intent to kill, biackmauing and obtainin; | Money under false pretences vy intimidation ap threats; Frank Wbde (colyred), Jailer and Deputy Sheriff, for conniving at the escape of prisouers, inclauing the pit state Tax Collector, The Grand Jury consisted of four white ane tweive colored men,